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Being There: Basic Strategies for Online Teaching Presence in Canvas LMS* Part I
The element that sets successful online courses apart from old-style correspondence courses is: presence. Well-taught, well-designed online courses can allow students to get to know each other and their instructors even better than in traditional lecture classrooms. Interaction is the key. Online course presence may…
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Measuring contract cheating
Measuring contract cheating "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it"* is the inspiration behind this blog post. In this post, I discuss why a way to measure contract cheating is necessary and propose a measurement metric. The motivation behind this (and future) posts is to journal the process of building this…
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Get Notified Right Away About a Course 'Content Link Error'
This CanvasTip actually came from one of my faculty and I thought it was definitely worth sharing. In a user's account Notification preferences, there's an option under Alerts called Content Link Error. I never paid much attention to it but if you hover your mouse over it, it explains this preference will notify an…
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Piloting Quizzes.Next (New Quizzes)
New Quizzes will eventually replace the default Canvas quizzing tool, but in the meantime, there's still a lot of development needed to bring it to feature parity. Here's what led The Wharton School to start using New Quizzes sooner rather than later. Meeting Our Biggest Need One of the largest core courses taken by all…
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Reflection on Blackboard Ally Implementation at Los Rios CCD
Hi Everyone, I'm usually not one to write too many blog posts, and I really debated the best place to put this. As Ally is an accessibility tool it could have certainly gone in the accessibility group (and beginning my community college career in DSPS I do have a soft spot for UDL and 508/ADA compliance--so important for…
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Colorful Canvas Stickers
We made some cool Canvas stickers! :smileycool: We plan to have a Canvas kick-off event for our students soon. If they show us they have the Canvas Student app installed on their mobile device, we're going to give them one of these cool Canvas stickers as a fun way to help with marketing and get them excited about our new…
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Automated report of assignments in courses
Attached Excel workbook is able to download data from Canvas (exclusively using Get API calls) to create an overview of all assignments in all courses you specify using Course SIS IDs. The worksheet contains the following columns to be filled with data from the API as specified in Assignments - Canvas LMS REST API…
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LEAD_community on university governance and academic leadership
Are you interested in university governance and academic leadership? join our LEAD-Community The LEAD2 project is a Capacity Building in Higher Education project supported by the Erasmus+ programme. The overall objective of the LEAD2 project is to strengthen the capacity of higher education institutions in governance and…
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eLearning Survey: Research!
Hello! My name is Alan Kinsey, and I am the Instructional Design Specialist at Holmes Community College. We are doing research into how other community colleges and eLearning departments function and exist in their contexts. We have created a short survey to gather this information. This survey is geared to gather…
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Upcoming Virtual World Learning Colloquium: Use Cases for Canvas Course Sites
Registration is now open for the Mainstreaming Virtual World Learning Colloquium @ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstreaming-virtual-world-learning-colloquium-registration-52512254567. The Colloquium is a free event -- on December 1, 2018 (9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Central Time) -- in the AvaCon Grid Quaternary Stadium (as…
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Instructors don’t have to rebuild courses because of Cengage Unlimited, right?
The short answer is no, Cengage Unlimited doesn’t change Canvas courses you’ve already built. However, you may be asked by instructors who have student’s with subscriptions to add a new link to Cengage Unlimited to their course. To do that check out this quick how-to video that walks you through…
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Sometimes I Make Me Laugh
So I just headed over to the "Answers" area. This came after spending several minutes on the home page typing a plethora of variations into the search engine, with no results to answer my predicament. I began asking my question to you luminaries, far and wide (no, that's not a fat joke). I began providing screenshots,…
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Large course management: Sections/Groups
2020! Can you believe it is now 2020? As such, I have updated the topic below. As we move into our final stages of implementing Canvas in a large University, every day we are faced with more and more challenges when it comes to managing large courses, specifically around Sections and Groups. We are trying everything, and I…
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Canvas Status via RSS Feed
There are many ways to read RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication as defined on RSS - Wikipedia) feeds. You can do so via browser plugin-in, RSS readers, and other news aggregators. If you want to keep up-to-date on the status of Canvas, you can always visit the Canvas Status page, but you can also get these…
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Faculty Training - Tips & Tricks (Really Just Two Tips...)
When I first began the task of Faculty Training, I was still at my alma mater - standing before those who had taught me, along with many who didn't know me, only that I had a BA that wouldn't hold a candle to their multiple PhD's. That was daunting and it was difficult to muster up the confidence in myself. Then I started…